Shelfmark
Fa.1.06
Author
Uniform title
[Works. Latin & Greek 1583]
Title
Homeri qvæ extant omnia Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Poematia aliquot cum Latina versione omnium quæ circumferuntur emendatiss. aliquot locis iam castigatiore perpetuis item iustisque in Iliada simul & Odysseam Io. Spondani Mauleonensis commentariis. Pindari quinetiam Thebani Epitome Iliados Latinis versib. & Daretis Phrygii de bello Troiano libri, à Corn. Nepote eleganter latino versi carmine. Indices Homeri textus & commentariorum locupletissimi.
Varying form of title
Homeri quaae extant omnia Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Poematia aliquot cum Latina versione omnium quae circumferuntur emendatiss. aliquot locis iam castigatiore perpetuis item iustisque in Iliada simul & Odysseam Io. Spondani Mauleonensis commentariis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileæ : Eusebii Episcopii opera ac impensa, CIC IC XXCIII [1583].
Physical description
2v in 1 ; 33cm. (Fo.)
Note
Pagination: 44, 427 pages, 429-499 columns, [25]p; [4], 380, [24]p.
Note
In 2 parts, the Odyssey has separate pagination and a special title page.In double columns.Greek text with parallel Latin translation and commentary.
Note
Second volume has separate title-page: Homeri Odyssea iusto Ioannis Spondani Mauleonensis commentario illustrata, & praefatione exornata, Item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni & poematia aliquot, quae Homero adscribuntur, Basileae, M.D. LXXXIII.Greek and Latin translation in parallel columns.Colophon ([v.2]): "Basileae, ex officina Hervagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, anno salutis M.D. XXCIII.".The Epitome (commonly cited as Ilias latina or Homerus latinus) formerly attributed to the imaginary Pindarus Thebanus, has recently been ascribed to Silius Italicus. The De bello troiano (col. 444-499) ascribed in this and in the earlier editions of Dares Phrygius to Cornelius Nepos, is poem by Joseph of Exeter (Josephus Iscanus) based on the Historia de excidio Troiae of "Dares Phrygius." cf. Wm. Camden, Britannia, 1590, p. 133-134, quoted by S. Dresenius in the preface to his edition of the poem, Frankfurt, 1620 (reprinted in Valpy's Delphine edition, London, 1825).
Citation/references note
Adams, H767
Provenance
Booklabel of Eton College Library.
Binding
16th-century brown panelled calf; wooden boards visible in places; four raised bands; red spine label.
Subject
Subject
Odysseus (Greek mythology) Poetry Early works to 1800.
Subject
Epic poetry, Greek Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Joseph of Exeter,
Added entry--name
Sponde, Jean de, 1557 - 1595 editor.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basle.
Identifier
B19129